That "biomass" and "other organically-based energy sources" wouldn't necessarily be limited to plant material — animal and human corpses contain plenty of energy, and they'd be plentiful in a war zone.

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Sounds like something Serpentor would have come up with back in those crazy-awesome '80s "GI Joe" cartoons.

I can just see the Baronness overseeing the construction of dead-body-eating robots as Cobra Commander laughed his ridiculously high-pitched laugh from behind his stainless steel facemask: "Heeheeheehee, let's see GI Joe survive our EATR robots. Destro, you take the HISS tanks and the EEL scuba divers and clear the way for the BATS robots, who can repair the EATR's wheels should Zap get off a lucky shot before he's eaten as fuel for our death machines."

Maybe the new Government Motors will use that in their new cars. Set it on "Roam" at night and it scours the neighborhood looking for stuff. Back to the horse and buggy days tying the horse out to pasture.

Speaking of...are you gonna go see the GI Joe flick??? If so...can I come????? I tell ya, it's harder and harder to find people to go see the movies I wanna see, mainly because they're all geared for kids!

;)

VM...I don't think distinguishing between living material and dead material will be a problem. For one thing, dead material gives off detectable traces that are easily picked up by sensors. Secondly, I'm pretty sure these are not (as of yet) capable of "eating" entire human bodies, simply "parts" and such.

Which, now that I mentioned it, gives a new meaning to the old anti-McDonald's commercials of "parts is parts."

What I find TRULY fascinating is the fact that they are able to power an engine using this method (organics) and do so in such an efficient manner. This has LOADS of potential in the real non-military world, especially along the lines of landfills and such.

Granted, that wold require people to sort their garbage and we've already seen how adamant some are on doing SIMPLE recycling, let alone sort things further into organic vs inorganic.

Which reminds me of a funny story my sister told me when working on the beach one season during seaturtle patrol.

I've even (yes, I admit it) strolled the toy aisle in Target looking at the new GI Joes. While most look ridiculous, others like the Terro-Viper look awesome. He comes with a big drill on treds, one of those machines you just know couldn't work but sure do look like they SHOULD.

And why change original characters' races? Ripcord is now black. Why not just use originally black characters like Alpine, Stalker, Roadblock and Doc, who were mega-cool? One of the GI Joes, I think Breaker, is now Arabic; he was the all-American guy who spoke with a Southern accent and chewed bubblegum all the time. And Cobra soldiers now look like Ghostrider, which makes no sense.

If you're going to make a fan-boy movie, make a fan-boy movie. Or don't call it GI Joe. Call it "Ultra War" or something and go straight to Sci-Fi.

YES!!! I'd ask the brother in law, but not too sure if he would be game to go out!

As for changing race...ya know, I would have agreed a while ago on that...until Battlestar Galactica on SciFi came out. That show, and what they did with the characters...well, they certainly turned things upside down.

So who knows? It may work.

We'll have to work on the brother in law and get him to tag along!

;)

The women-folk can stay at home (as long as they don't know it was me who suggested that!).

...Battlestar Galactica NEW in almost no way resembles Battlestar Galactica OLD. They are stand-alone. It just so happens that both stand alone with separate, large fan bases.

The new GI Joe, by way of the trailers at least, seems to stick with the GI Joe ultimate warrior force against the tech-savvy global terrorists of Cobra. So why not just make a fan-boy movie and give me Doc working on an injured Flash while Shortfuze lobs mortars at Major Bludd and Scrap Iron?

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